3/21/12 -- Final Project Assignment/Rubric and Ideas Brainstormed in Class Today:


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3/8/12 - Here are photos of the notes you all posted on the board during today's "Stop the Pop" lesson:


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2/10/12-- Here are the groups for the "You Teach the Class" Assignment, and here is the assignment and rubric.

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2/1/12 - Chew On This Day 1

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Here are the slides and pictures from our Compass Points activity today. I look forward to using all your suggestions moving forward!!


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Can't read the sticky notes?

North – What do you Need to kNow in order to be successful as we tackle this unit?

  • I need to know what keeps teens going to fast food restaurants and what the restaurants do to capture these teens

  • What I need to know in order to be successful is the moral of what we are reading

  • I need to know how bad this issue affects us

  • What fast food is

  • I need to know how food can affect me personally

  • Why are we reading this? It’s kind of gross and sickening!

  • I need to know on what will this book help me?

  • What we need to know throughout this unit is to have an open mind, so you can believe the reality behind our favorite foods

  • What I need to know in order to be successful learners throughout this unit is that I can look at vocabulary in the book.

  • I need to know where this unit is going to take us

  • I need to know if this could really affect us

  • How it affects me

  • Why are we reading this book?

  • I need to know what is in fast foods

  • What we need to know in order to be successful learners throughout this unit is where the food came from, who makes it, ingredients, etc.

  • The projects we are going to do for this book, and how will we go over/discuss this book?

  • I need to know how this food will affect me

  • Why are we reading this?

  • I don’t know

  • I need to know if there will be projects

  • I will need to know how meat we eat at fast food restaurants is processed


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West – What are you Worried about?

  • That it’s disgusting and it makes me not want to eat at all.

  • I might get sick!

  • That I will be disgusted when I find out what’s really in fast food.

  • It makes me want to throw up thinking of this book

  • I’m worried that it would probably be boring,

  • What worries me about this unit is nothing!

  • What worries me is that I’m scared of what could be in my body at this point, since I eat so much fast food.

  • Finding the extreme facts about the food I eat everyday

  • It might make me hate fast food

  • I’m worried that I will stop or just dislike fast food more because I like it (it tastes good!)

  • I’m not worried about anything with this unit but me not being able to look at fast food again.

  • What worries me about this unit is that I am going to stop eating burgers, the crunch French fries, and the delicious nuggets.

  • What worries me is where the food comes from and what’s in it and what it does to your body

  • I’m worried this book is not going to affect me at all

  • To read something really nasty

  • I think it might affect my position on fast food. It also might gross me out.

  • Essays

  • That I will hate fast food after this

  • I am worried that I might not clearly understand what’s going on

  • I’m worried I’ll have a phobia of eating fast food


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East – What are you most Excited about?

  • I’m not really that excited because it might make me throw up

  • I’m not excited about this book

  • That I will learn what’s really in those juicy burgers. Hopefully knowing the real ingredients in fast food will make me want to make healthier choices

  • To know what all the things we eat are made out of

  • I’m most excited about how I will learn what is in my fast food hamburger, French fries, and soda. I want to learn what this food does to us.

  • Knowing what I’m really eating

  • I’m excited about learning about what’s in my food.

  • I’m excited to learn about the 15-year-old who made a burger.

  • What I’m most excited about is discovering what our foods are really made of.

  • I’m most excited to know what it’s like to be working out back in the kitchen

  • I am most excited to find out what they’re hiding

  • Nothing, nothing at all

  • I’m NOT excited for this book

  • Nothing

  • I am excited about seeing what goes in the good fast food we eat.

  • I am excited to see what they put in fast foods.

  • I’m excited about group projects/discussions this book will bring

  • Knowing the process of food and fast food

  • I am excited to see people wanting to become vegetarians—the way to go! No meat!

  • I’m excited about the questions we are going to have, because I think it’s going to be an easy one—ha ha!

  • I’m most excited about finding out what these fast foods are really made of

  • I’m most excited about learning more secrets behind the fast food industry.

  • Reading the book and learning new facts about our fast food society!

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South – What Suggestions do you have as we move forward?

  • Be open-minded

  • I think we should discuss how this book makes us feel

  • My suggestion is no essays! The book is too straightforward.

  • We should really pay attention to what they are saying

  • What a PETA video

  • I’m going to suggest we watch a PETA video

  • That we stop with this!

  • We stop reading this book

  • We should stop reading this book

  • I think we should take notes on some facts given from the book

  • To watch Supersize Me and videos on how the meat is created

  • I suggest in order to know what we’re really discussing

  • We could discuss how the effects of fast food are long-term effects

  • Make connections

  • I think we should watch videos and the movie Supersize Me to better explain the point of the book

  • What we should do is when we move on in this book—like when we are done with it—we could do an awesome project.

  • I think that throughout this unit, we should watch videos about and have activities (FUN!) about it.

  • We should watch Supersize Me

  • Let’s stop reading this!!

  • Do a cool project with a lot of creativity!

Video Intro to Chew On This:


Click here to watch the trailer for the film Food, Inc.Click here to watch the trailer for the film Supersize Me